Today is: Yom Reevee'ee , Tammuz 11, 5771 • 7 13, 2011
Today in Judaism
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Today in Jewish History
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• Purim Tammuz (Algiers) (1774)
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In 1774, the Spanish General O'Reilly attacked the city of Algiers and was successfully repulsed by the Dey of Algiers, Mohammed ibn Uman. Tradition has it that flames came out of the graves of the great Rabbis Isaac ben Sheshet and Solomon ben Simon Duran and contributed to the Spanish defeat. To celebrate the miracle of having escaped Spanish rule, the Jews of Algiers instituted a "Purim" on the 11th of Tammuz.
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Daily Quote
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A chassid is a lamplighter. The lamplighter walks the streets carrying a flame at the end of a stick. He knows that the flame is not his. And he goes from lamp to lamp to set them alight.
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- Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch
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Daily Study
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Chitas and Rambam for today:
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Chumash: Pinchas, 4th Portion Numbers 27:6-27:23 with Rashi
Tehillim: Chapters 60 - 65
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Tanya: Igeret HaTeshuva , beginning of Chapter 1
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Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Rotseah uShmirat Nefesh Chapter Eleven
• 3 Chapters: Shvuot Chapter 4, Shvuot Chapter 5, Shvuot Chapter 6
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Hayom Yom: "Today's Day"
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In the Tanya edition published in Zolkvi in the year m'vasseir tov ("Herald of Good," numerically equivalent to 5559, or 1799), the first version of Igeret Hateshuva was printed. It was not divided into chapters and there are variances (from the present text) in content.
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Today's Mitzvah
A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
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Negative Commandment 62
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Vain Oaths
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"You shall not take the name of the L-rd, your G‑d, in vain"—Exodus 20:7.
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It is forbidden to needlessly swear in the name of G‑d.
Examples:
• To swear falsely regarding something that is an obvious untruth [e.g., to swear regarding a simple pebble that it is made of gold].
• To swear that a phenomenon that is known to be impossible has occurred.
• To swear to do something that violates a Torah commandment.
• To swear in attestation of an obvious truth, e.g., to swear that all that are slaughtered die.
• To swear falsely regarding something that is an obvious untruth [e.g., to swear regarding a simple pebble that it is made of gold].
• To swear that a phenomenon that is known to be impossible has occurred.
• To swear to do something that violates a Torah commandment.
• To swear in attestation of an obvious truth, e.g., to swear that all that are slaughtered die.
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THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
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Genesis Chapter 1
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בְּרֵאשִׁית
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Yom Revee´ee............Fourth day
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יד וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי מְאֹרֹת בִּרְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמַיִם, לְהַבְדִּיל, בֵּין הַיּוֹם וּבֵין הַלָּיְלָה; וְהָיוּ לְאֹתֹת וּלְמוֹעֲדִים, וּלְיָמִים וְשָׁנִים. 14 And God said: 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
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טו וְהָיוּ לִמְאוֹרֹת בִּרְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמַיִם, לְהָאִיר עַל-הָאָרֶץ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.' And it was so.
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טז וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-שְׁנֵי הַמְּאֹרֹת הַגְּדֹלִים: אֶת-הַמָּאוֹר הַגָּדֹל, לְמֶמְשֶׁלֶת הַיּוֹם, וְאֶת-הַמָּאוֹר הַקָּטֹן לְמֶמְשֶׁלֶת הַלַּיְלָה, וְאֵת הַכּוֹכָבִים. 16 And God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars.
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יז וַיִּתֵּן אֹתָם אֱלֹהִים, בִּרְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמָיִם, לְהָאִיר, עַל-הָאָרֶץ. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
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יח וְלִמְשֹׁל, בַּיּוֹם וּבַלַּיְלָה, וּלְהַבְדִּיל, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ; וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
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יט וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם רְבִיעִי. {פ} 19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. {P}
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